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Yesterday fresh from the battlefield of the weekend's Fashion Hackathon five teams pitched for the chance to be crowned top hack. With just 24hrs to polish there products and prepare to present in front of William Kim, CEO of AllSaints, Caroline Rush, Chief Executive of the British Fashion Council, Designer Lulu Guinness and an audience of over 350 fashion, retail and technology professionals.
Topics: hackathon, AllSaints, e-commerce, Innovation, winner, technology, finalists, fashion, Lulu Guinness, Weekly Stories, The British Fashion Council, Fashion Hackathon, fashion tech, Retailing
Rightster Will Livestream Decoded Fashion Forum, Wishes Luck to Fashion Hack Finalists
When we learned about The Fashion Hackathon we knew this was something we just had to get involved with. The mission of this event and Decoded Fashion is one that we share at Rightster. We’ve been on a mission to develop new technology solutions to advance the fashion industry for all stakeholders, from designers through to retailers and the end consumer from our inception, so we couldn’t wait to join up with Decoded Fashion on this initiative.
Topics: Decoded Fashion Forum, tech, livestream, fashion, rightster, Weekly Stories, MBFW, NYFW, Fashion Hackathon
A Hacker Perspective: Recapping the World's First Fashion Hackathon
Topics: hackathon, startups, tech, the shoplift, entrepreneurs, pitch, apps, fashion, fashion industry, API, Rachel Roy, Weekly Stories, modalyst, Fashion Hackathon, fashion dashboard
Miss the pitches by our five finalists teams or just want to relive the magic? Check out the video of pitches by 42, Avant-Garde, Coveted, Fashion Dashboard, and SWATCHit!
Topics: hackathon, startups, tech, 42, swatchit, coveted, fashion, avant-garde, Weekly Stories, Fashion Hackathon, pitches, fashion dashboard
On Feb. 2-3, Decoded Fashion held the world’s first Fashion Hackathon, a 24-hour event where 550 registered participants and 78 teams competed to build a technology that helps American fashion designers.
Topics: hackathon, startups, uri minkoff, e-commerce, tech, rebecca minkoff, emerging market, dkny, 42, steven kolb, apps, Michael Kors, swatchit, coveted, fashion, Zac Posen, dirk standen, social media, avant-garde, analytics, Rachel Roy, Weekly Stories, style.com, Fashion Hackathon, fashion tech, gilt groupe, fashion dashboard, donna karan, CFDA, tumblr
Fashion-Tech Talk: Making Gap Cool Again with Rachel Tipograph
Rachel Tipograph is “making Gap cool again for the first time since Bill Clinton was President,” according to Business Insider. As Gap’s Global Director of Digital & Social Media, Rachel oversees strategy, implementation and measurement. She judged the pitches at the world’s first Fashion Hackathon, and we chatted with her on what tech she can’t live without.
Topics: retail tech, startups, business insider, IT technology, digital media, rachel tipograph, Fashion Tech Talk, in-store technology, enterprise startup, social media, gap, radian 6, Weekly Stories, iphone, Fashion Hackathon
Hack Talk: Spotify’s Hacker Advocate Andrew Mager
We may be the first Fashion Hackathon, but we’re also the first Hackathon for plenty of developers, designers and business and marketing professionals. What? how? why? do you do what? when? To answer some of the top questions, we talked to Spotify’s Hacker Advocate Andrew Mager, who’s been to more than 50 hackathons around the world.
Topics: Decoded Fashion Forum, hackathon, spotify, e-commerce, tech, commerce, APIs, art, Fashion Tech Talk, music, fashion, retail, Weekly Stories, Fashion Hackathon